The penultimate day of the event featured light winds that never went above seven knots all day, often staying down as low as three. The 34-boat fleet were sent on a 30-mile course visiting the bays, rocks and islands to the South of Porto Cervo.

First home again was Neville CRICHTON'S Alfa Romeo, managing to win on handicap for the third time in a row in the IRC Class. In the IMS Class Raffaele RAIOLA'S Idea SAI had a close race with John KAHLBETZER'S Bumblebee 5, whereas in the Wally Class Luca BASSANI'S Wallyño won by a staggering 38 minutes on corrected time.

"When we get down to 4-5 knots of wind we really begin to struggle upwind. We don't have an overlapping headsail and we have to sail much lower angles than boats with overlapping headsails. It made a difference today for Idea. They managed to sail a much better angle in less wind that brought them almost up beside us towards Mortoriotto Rock." Michael COXON, tactician on board Neville CRICHTON'S Alfa Romeo, line honours and overall leader of the IRC Class, said.

With a light thermal breeze from the East today the committee decided to set a weather mark and send the entire fleet Southwards to the island of Soffi before diving deep into a turn mark in the Cala di Volpe, just offshore from a hotel by the same name where Rolex had received the owners and media for dinner the night before. From here the course took the fleet back out to Mortoriotto Rock before turning for home.

The light winds that plagued the fleet all day let one type of boat and then another gain the upper hand depending on the point of sail and the actual wind-speed. Alfa Romeo and some of the Wallys sailed well upwind when the wind was over 5 knots but lost out to the likes of Idea SAI and some of the others with overlapping headsails when the wind dropped below this speed. On the reaching and downwind legs, the boats equipped with masthead asymmetric sails always had the edge.

Idea SAI had a new rival to deal with yesterday. What had been a two boat race between Idea SAI and Alberto ROEMMERS' Alexia for the championship ended with the retirement from the regatta two days ago when Alexia broke its topmast in a start line collision with Leopard. Idea SAI has all but won the championship now, needing to just finish today's race if Bumblebee wins.

In the IRC Class Carlo PERRONE'S Virtuelle needs to sail better than today if she is to displace Crichton's super maxi Alfa Romeo from the top spot. The world class crew on the big Kiwi boat have barely put a foot wrong this week and are regularly winning on corrected time in both heavy and light winds. In the Wally Class Lindsay OWEN-JONES' Magic Carpet 2 led around the whole course pulling up to third on the water having started 10 minutes behind the IMS and IRC Class Maxis. Sailing smartly through the patchy winds on the downwind legs and always managing to keep close to rival Claus-Peter OFFEN'S Y3K well tucked away behind, it unfortunately came as no surprise to see the tiny 60-foot long Wallyño win by almost 40 minutes on corrected time. Wallyño's has now won all her races except one and is a runaway leader of the famous 'designer' class.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.